We –fans of the original Mission Impossible series– do NOT consider Tom
Cruise’s Mission Impossible: I, II, III as sequels to the original series. Even
if we consider Cruise’s first as a sequel, then the series has ended long time
ago when they decided to kill Jim Phelps and worse, made him a villain. The
real villain in the movie was not Jim Phelps, but Tom Cruise and the rest of
the filmcrew.